New York

With so many different cultures residing in New York, each person has their own perspective on New York, I'm using a series of photography to share my point of view.

A.D.D

I just realized that the reason for our generation's short attention span is primarily media-based. With shows like Family Guy, it seems almost impossible for this generation to pay attention to anything for more than 3mins.
Have you ever sat down to watch an episode of Family Guy? It has so much shit in just one episode, it boggles my mind to see how defective people's attention has become.

self service

It seems as if humans have gravitated towards a dependent sort of attitude in relation to each other. There's a complex ideology of this concept. How is it that we depend on each other for things like our style, interests and dislikes; but on the flip side of things most marriages end in divorce because of a lack of dependence/trust in their spouse.
It seems as if the mistress way of life of life is more productive. Mistresses are not required to split responsibilities or subjected to their lovers. In this day and time marriages are the relationships that don't last.
The direction I'm taking is not as direct as I mentioned, what I'm truly speaking of is Style vs. Fashion. A trend is a mistress way of life, very flighty and sometimes doesn't last very long, she's appealing to the eyes and she is taken on by the involved fashionable group. The marrying kind is style, she's well grounded, very consistent and if her marriage lasts, that's because she acts like the mistress, has some twists and turns, spices things up, and isn't afraid to be the town's gossip. When style is the individual's own, it's always progressing and she my dear lives by her vows, to love and to hold and not even death can tear them apart.

VOLTAIRE

Witty sarcasm over dry humor by old men: they remind me of a time period when people held a level of intelligence without university. I'm aware that this was ahead of my time, but I grew up with a grandmother that became my time machine, she constantly transported me to the "good ol' days." A time where books were read as opposed to the video games of this generation that's a limitation of a once concentrated attention span. My question now lies; is intelligence truly based on the level of education one has reached? Or is it the development of one's mind in terms of mere common sense?
It seems as if all the reading is done by only the artistic minded. And if this is the case, has the technbological advancement of our time dumbed us down?I cannot stress this enough but if we don't better ourselves, this generation might just be the last. Religion preaches of the end time; scientists speak of the deterioration of the ozone layer. If two kinds who constantly challenge eachother's theories/beliefs can come to a common agreement of an analogy then how can it be a lie?

2008

I don't know if it's the fact that it's a leap year why people seem to have lept out of their sanity. I wished it was a genius sort of madness as that of Newton or Jacobs. However it's just plain crazy; cloned with the same sort of abstractness of the originator. And then my mind boggles at the usage of "originator", who determines that? I feel like us calling someone an "originator" is like saying Christopher Columbus "discovered" America; as if there wasn't people living here when he embarked.

Christian Louboutin

Have you strolled down the main floor of Barneys recently? Christian Louboutin consumes the majority of the shoes floor. Louboutin's red sole can be seen on the feet of socialites, supermodels, to the glamour girls strolling down fifth avenue.
The Fashion Institute of Technology dedicated it's museum halls to the man with the "red sole" for an exhibit earlier this year. Oprah Winfrey dedicated a segment of her show to introduce Louboutin's line to her eighth million viewers.
What I love most about Christian is the fact that he's such a simple man, even in the complexity by which his mind works. The man doesn't own a television and he rarely reads magazines. You can find him on his vespa strolling the streets of Jean-Jacques Rousseau where his boutique is located.
Louboutin's direction is always a concept gravitated upon by shoemakers everywhere, you can find knockoff versions of his work in places such as aldo, ninewest and even last year Burberry borrowed his idea for their gladiator heel.
The red sole price ranges from $495 flats to his $7500 mondrian inspired heel for YSL.
If I must say so myself Louboutin has revolutionized the stiletto.